Posted on 02/02/2024 8:47:39 PM PST by anthropocene_x
A pigeon accused of being a Chinese spy and serving eight months in Indian detainment was freed into the wild Tuesday after police determined the bird was innocent.
The fowl was captured near a Mumbai port in May when onlookers noticed two rings tied to its legs with written words resembling Chinese letters, according to the news agency Press Trust of India.
The scribblings led Indian police to suspect the feathered critter could be a Chinese agent seeking confidential intelligence from India. They took the bird into custody to investigate and later transferred it to Mumbai’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals.
An investigation found that the “flying rat” was not a Chinese spy but an open-water racing bird that escaped from Taiwan and migrated to India.
After it was cleared of any espionage, the pigeon was transferred to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose doctors set it free on Tuesday.
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“Suspected Chinese spy pigeon freed after 8 months in Indian bird lockup”
They gave it a bread and water diet for 8 months in an attempt to make it talk.”
Turns out its only crime was flying the coop from its racing career.
Red Skelton joke. (Flapping his arms). “You know humans make fun of us pigeons all the time. Think we’re stupid. But who are the stupid ones when we’re overhead and all of them are down there looking up?”
I hope it has seen the error of its ways and straightens up and flies right.
So it wasnt a stool pigeon ......
I got nuthin to say to you copper ......
It wasn’t just released. It was part of a prisoner exchange for 3 Indian undercover bats.
I wonder if it had a rubber false beak like Martin Landau?
I think he had been trained to cr@p on Prime Minister Modi.
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